Body centered therapy

Body centered therapy is about honoring all of you—your body, mind, heart, and spirit—and letting each part come forth and be heard, respected, and nurtured.

People receive body centered therapy for many reasons:

• to connect with their innermost self
• to live more in the present moment
• to feel more confident, grounded, and centered
• to feel more ease in all ways
• to relieve physical pain, stress, and tension

Throughout our lives we adjust to fit in; to survive. We reshape and adapt, often covering over our "original" or "authentic” selves in order to cope. Different parts of our bodies—often our backs, necks, and stomachs—may hold unresolved emotions. This may be experienced as tightness, pain or, paradoxically enough, a lack of feeling and connection with our bodies and our spirit.

As a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, I use a combination of talk therapy and touch. This work is an innovative, hands-on, gentle approach to releasing painful emotions held in the body. The work is done through deep relaxation on a massage table, with or without clothing, always draped. Together we work to help you regain feeling and establish a better sense of connection with your body and spirit.

Mark Epstein, a Buddhist psychiatrist writes: "...the healthiest way to deal with trauma is to lean into it, rather than try to keep it at bay." We carry these traumas with us. I'm interested in finding ways to gently coax them out of their hiding places, not forcing a "letting go" but rather allowing a "being with" experience.

And the "being with" is about "being" rather than "doing". It's also about being transparent rather than hiding. To stand tall and live large, inside and out. It's a process and a radical change from what our culture asks of us, which is to conform and fit our square selves into a round hole, or vice versa.